Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania

All of the estates [your in-laws, your husband's] have to be administered.

The house may not be transferred or sold except by the personal representative of your in-laws or the second of them to die. Your husband's share of their estate would be 1/2, his brother, the other 1/2. None of the assets may be distributed or disposed of until all debts of each estate are paid.

You may open the estates at the Office of the Register of Wills. That office will provide you with the documents and may guide you through the steps you need to follow, although it does not give legal advice.

This response is not legal advice, since I do not have all of the information that would be required, and I do not have a representation agreement with you.

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